861.24/138: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
2346. For the Secretary of State.
Referring to Department’s 2315, June 16, 4 p.m.8 Mr. Znamensky, who states he is Assistant Minister of Food and Supplies for the Russian Government at Omsk, desires to purchase uniforms and overcoats or cloth for manufacture thereof; underwear, stockings, shoes, caps, et cetera; machinery, tools, rations, motor vehicles and other supplies, excepting munitions of war.
Russian Embassy here inform me his credentials authentic. He proposes payment upon credit basis or by a loan or such other method of payment and security as may prove acceptable.
What attitude is Department to assume? …